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# manoeuvre

«manoeuvre» in Mova's school dictionary: **a planned movement of soldiers, ships or vehicles, often…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (manoeuvres, manoeuvred, manoeuvring); noun (manoeuvres)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A manoeuvre is a planned movement of soldiers, ships or vehicles, often done as practice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/#m1)

2) To manoeuvre is to move something carefully or cleverly, or to steer it through a tight space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales, army practice with soldiers, or a clever plan to move a creature or a boat

### examples

- The soldiers did their manoeuvres well at the review. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/#x1)
- Comrade Wasp's-nest manoeuvred his wasps. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/#x2)
- The boat manoeuvred carefully round the rocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «manoeuvre» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/manoeuvre/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.